![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Invisible Avenger - Emanuel Demby, Eric Sayers
Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow (Richard Derr), investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
Keywords: Action; Drama
Downloads: 2,935
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| Purple Death From Outer Space - DemonPlanet
Feature Length complication movie of the "Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe" Cliffhanger Serial.
Keywords: Flash Gordon; Public Domain
Downloads: 9,947
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| Payoff, The - Harry D. Edwards
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Keywords: Action; Crime; Mystery; Romance
Downloads: 27,066
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| The Nasty Rabbitt - James Landis
Downloads: 1,130
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| Take Heed Mr. Tojo - Walter Lantz
The first of the Mr. Hook cartoon series, his main purpose was to sell war bonds. Hook is set a decade in the future, and he is telling his young son about his exploits during the war and how war bonds helped him defeat an evil Japanese pilot who was trying to attack the fleet.
Keywords: Animation; Short
Downloads: 1,731
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| Sinister Hands
Murder at a seance.
Keywords: seance; murder; swami; Jack Mulhall; Mischa Auer
Downloads: 3,133
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| The Clutching Hand: Chapter 7 - The Invisible Enemy - Adrian Weiss
Taken from IMDB: A scientist discovers a formula for making synthetic gold, but before he can reveal the secret to his colleagues at the International Research Foundation, both he and the book in which he has written the formula disappear. Super-detective Craig Kennedy and his partner are called in to find both the scientists and the formula. The Clutching Hand: Chapter 1 - Who Is the Clutching Hand? The Clutching Hand: Chapter 2 - Shadows The Clutching Hand: Chapter 3 - House of Mystery The Clu...
Keywords: Serial; Action; Crime; Mystery
Downloads: 1,037
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| Murder Is News
A rather dull and talky mystery.
Keywords: mystery; John Gallaudet; Iris Meredith; George McKay
Downloads: 1,727
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| The Headline Woman
Smug reporter with dinky, bifurcated moustache aids young woman suspected of murder. Details in next edition.
Keywords: Roger Pryor; Heather Angel; Ford Sterling; Jack La Rue; Franklin Pangborn; George 'Gabby' Hayes
Downloads: 2,114
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| SOS CoastGuard chapter 1
1937 12 chapter rebulic serial
Keywords: cliffhanger; serial; Bela Lugosi; Ralph Bryd
Downloads: 1,066
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| Behind Green Lights - Robert Bassler
Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the body of a blackmailing reporter is dumped at the door of police headquarters.
Keywords: Crime; Drama
Downloads: 10,037
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| Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
Hanvey is a detective who's hired by an insurance company to find a missing emerald. He finds it, when he tries to turn it in, serious complications arise.
Keywords: emralds; mystery; feature films
Downloads: 1,902
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| Mystery Liner - Paul Malvern
Captain Holling (Noah Beery) is relieved of command of his ship after he suffers a nervous breakdown. His replacement, Captain Downey (Boothe Howard), takes over the liner just as it is about to be used for an experiment in remote control. Professor Grimson (Ralph Lewis) has devised a system for controlling the ship from a laboratory on land. But as Grimson demonstrates the system and the special component that makes it work, a rival group is listening in, hoping to use the device for its own pu...
Keywords: Adventure; Mystery
Downloads: 11,175
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| Murder with Pictures
Lew Ayres in a comic mystery.
Keywords: Lew Ayres; mystery
Downloads: 11,353
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| The Whispering Shadow: Chapter 1 - Master Magician - Nat Levine
Taken from IMDB: A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes. Chapter 1 - Master Magician Chapter 2 - The Collapsing Room Chapter 3 - The All-seeing Eye Chapter 4 - The Shadow Strikes Chapter 5 - Wanted for Murder C...
Keywords: Crime; Horror; Adventure; Mystery; Sci-Fi; Serial
Downloads: 1,732
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| The Phantom (1943) Serial - 15 Chapters - Columbia Pictures - Rudolph C. Flothow
The Phantom (1943) is a Columbia Pictures 15 chapter serial starring Tom Tyler in the title role. The serial is based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom. The serial also features Jeanne Bates as the Phantom's girlfriend Diana Palmer, and Ace the Wonder Dog as the Phantom's trusty German shepherd Devil (who is a wolf in the original comic). Professor Davidson plans an expedition to find the Lost City of Zoloz...
Keywords: The Phantom; Lee Falk; Serial; Cliffhanger; Tom Tyler
Downloads: 13,217
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| Mystery Squadron: Chapter 1 - The Black Ace - Nat Levine
Taken from IMDB: Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam. Mystery Squadron: Chapter 1 - The Black Ace Mystery Squadron: Chapter 2 - The Fatal Warning Mystery Squadron: Chapter 3 - The Black Ace Strikes Mystery Squadron: Chapter 4 - Men of Steel Mystery Squadron: Chapter 5 - The Death Swoop Mystery Squadron: Chapter 6 - Doomed Myste...
Keywords: Aviation, Action Adventure, serial
Downloads: 3,011
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| MonsterpieceTheaterPresents07
Terror In The Midnight Sun
Keywords: monsterpiece
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| Shadow of Chinatown: Chapter 1 - The Arms of the Gods - Sam Katzman
Sonya Rokoff acting as a representative of a European importing firm hires Victor Poten (Bela Lugosi), a Eurasian mad scientist who hates both whites and Asians, to ruin the tourist trade in San Francisco's Chinatown. Rokoff soon realizes that Poten has become an unstoppable monster, beyond her control. Poten's nefarious activities draw the attention of newspaper reporter Joan Whiting and her novelist boyfriend Martin Andrews who begin to investigate the mysterious, and violent events in Chinato...
Keywords: Serial; Crime; Horror; Sci-Fi
Downloads: 2,252
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| Black Dragons - Jack Dietz
A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone's true motives and identities are revealed.
Keywords: Horror; Sci-Fi; Thriller
Downloads: 21,406
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| The Shadow
The Shadow knows, and he'll tell unless you fork over a princely sum.
Keywords: mystery; British; old dark house; Henry Kendall
Downloads: 5,861
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| Teenagers Battle The Thing
A mummified ape man is brought back to life and wreaks havok. This movie was shot in 1958 and is black and white. A later version of this film was released in color with a half hour of new scenes shot in 1972 added and titled "Curse Of Bigfoot".
Keywords: horror; scifi; feature films
Downloads: 8,128
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Let's Face It - Civil Defence
A cold war gem from the Civil Defence Department
Keywords: Nuclear War; Atomic Age; A Bomb; H Bomb; Civil Defence; Cold War
Downloads: 2,622
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| The Riverside Murder
A British mystery. Alastair Sim: No, no, no, now stay out! Judy Gunn: Oh, you monster! Alastair Sim: Aye, from Loch Ness.
Keywords: Alastair Sim; mystery; Judy Gunn; Basil Sydney
Downloads: 4,204
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| Shadows of the Orient - Larry Darmour
Society dame smashes plot to make San Francisco's Chinatown the Hong Kong of the West.
Keywords: Action; Drama; Romance
Downloads: 3,861
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| I Killed That Man (1945)
A man sentenced to death decides to come clean and tell the cops who hired him to do the killing. Just as he is about to confess he's killed by a poison dart.
Keywords: murder; mystery; feature films
Downloads: 4,119
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Dead End Kids: Junior G-Men Part 1
A gang of street kids work with the FBI in to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist group. Stars include: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, and Kenneth Lundy among others. This crime drama is divided into 12 chapters. Part 1 contains chapters 1 and the first half of chapter 2. Part 1 chapter 1 and begin chaprter 2 Part 2 finish chapter 2, chapter 3, begin chapter 4 Part 3 finish chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6 Part 4 finish ...
Keywords: G-Men; 1940; crime; drama
Downloads: 5,166
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| Law of the Jungle (1942)
Arline Judge joins a safari to escape the clutches of an enemy agent in this jungle adventure.
Keywords: adventure; jungle; feature films
Downloads: 5,496
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| The Adventures of Tartu
AKA "Sabotage Agent" A beautiful girl! A dangerous mission! A Brit (Robert Donat) who happens to be fluent in both Rumanian and German -- and a top-notch chemist into the bargain -- is sent behind enemy lines to destroy a poison gas factory. Starts off as a credible spy thriller, with the Nazis really earning audience hatred, then morphs into a James Bond-style fantasia, complete with an enormous secret underground factory and an overdone superweapon...
Keywords: poison gas; superscience; propaganda; espionage; sabotage; secret agent; undercover; factory; hungary; chemist
Downloads: 4,415
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| Seven Doors to Death - Arthur Alexander, Alfred Stern
Also Known As "Vanishing Corpses" A shot rings out in a darkened apartment; a woman screams and flees, tricking architect Jimmy McMillan into giving her a ride....
Keywords: Mystery; Romance
Downloads: 9,201
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| Captured in Chinatown - Louis Weiss
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
Keywords: Crime; Mystery; Romance
Downloads: 1,934
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The World Gone Mad - Phil Goldstone
The World Gone Mad is a 1933 drama/horror film which pits the district attorney's office against crooks defrauding a corporation from within, unbeknownst to the company's owner. This film is in the public domain.
Keywords: 1930s; horror; corruption
Downloads: 10,346
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Discarded Lovers
An early mystery set at a movie studio.
Keywords: mystery; Jason Robards, Sr
Downloads: 2,576
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| Exile Express - Eugene Frenke
Anna Sten plays Nadine Nikolas, a Russian emigrant to the United States who is diligently studying for her citizenship qualification exam and employed as a laboratory assistant for a research chemist, Dr. Hite (Harry Davenport) who has developed a sort of pesticide that can also be a horribly lethal weapon. Some foreign power wants to get the formula, and the authorities suspect that Nadine is involved in the plot...
Keywords: Drama
Downloads: 2,664
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| MonsterpieceTheaterPresents05
Battle of the Worlds starring Claude Rains
Keywords: monsterpiece
Downloads: 1,130
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Tomorrow at Seven - Samuel Zierler
A mystery writer (Chester Morris) is determined to discover the identity of the "The Black Ace", a killer who always warns his intended victim, then leaves an ace of spades on the corpse as his calling card.
Keywords: Mystery
Downloads: 4,400
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Payoff, The - Jack Schwarz
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 8,398
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Big Sleep trailer - Jack Warner
This is the trailer for my favorite Bogart flick, The Big Sleep. It's my favorite for several reasons, but primarily because it introduced me to Raymond Chandler's excellent Novels.
Keywords: murder; mystery; crime; Bogart; Bacall
Downloads: 5,367
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The Sphinx - Sid Rogell
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Lionel Atwill; Mystery; Murder
Downloads: 2,839
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Dracula Has Risen From The Grave - trailer
Preview of Christopher Lee's third film outing as the lord of the vampires for Hammer Films.
Keywords: trailers; horror; Dracula
Downloads: 2,087
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| Ship's Reporter Interview with Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi is interviewed aboard ship on returning from England after making Vampire Over London.
Keywords: Interview; Bela Lugosi
Downloads: 1,073
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| Murder at Midnight
Gun used during charades turns out to be loaded with real ammo instead of blanks.
Keywords: murder; mystery; charades
Downloads: 4,011
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| General Electric Theater: I'm a Fool - Mort Abrahams
In "I'm a Fool", James Dean plays "The Boy" aka "Walter Mathers" alongside Eddie Albert's on-screen narration of the same character. Natalie Wood appears in this "Fool", cast as the young woman Dean falls in love with.
Keywords: Classic TV; Drama; Natalie Wood; James Dean
Downloads: 2,163
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| Roar of the Press - Scott R. Dunlap
A newly wedded couple tries to get the scoop on fifth columnist.
Keywords: Romance; Drama
Downloads: 11,743
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Green Eyes - George R Batcheller
A charming Chesterfield mystery starring 1930s/40s hero Charles Starrett. The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder. Encoded for IPOD from a VHS master.
Keywords: Chesterfield Pictures; Charles Starrett; Richard Thorpe; B Picture
Downloads: 7,563
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Zontar the Thing From Venus - Edwin Tobolowsky
Taken from IMDB: A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems. However, Zontar has other ideas, like disabling the power supply of the entire world and taking possession of important officials with mind control devices.
Downloads: 30,996
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Sexton Blake is a philatelist and an amateur detective. The villain in the film is played by Tod Slaughter.
Keywords: Tod Slaughter; detective; philatelist; Baker Street
Downloads: 10,579
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The Living Ghost
A poverty-row mystery starring James Dunn. Also known as "A Walking Nightmare".
Keywords: poverty row; mystery; James Dunn
Downloads: 2,364
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| the Scar - Steve Sekely
"Harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy visuals and a very fine script that features a creative doppelganger theme." - noir expert Spencer Selby Also titled "Hollow Triumph". Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen. 82 min.
Keywords: film noir, crime drama, joan bennett. the scar. hollow triumph
Downloads: 8,161
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| The Ace of Hearts - Samuel Goldwyn
From IMDb: A secret society holds a meeting to determine what to do about a powerful and dangerous man whom they have been studying closely for the past three months. They all agree that he deserves to die. Two of the members, Farallone and Forrest, are both in love with Lilith, the group's only female member. But Lilith accepts neither of them, preferring to devote herself to the group's cause. When the group meets again and deals cards to all the members, Forrest draws the ace of hearts, meani...
Keywords: Crime; Romance; Secret Society; Assassination
Downloads: 5,353
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
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